Vegetable-washer.



E. J. JUDGE.

VEGETABLE WASHER, APPLICATION FILED 0012.5, 190s.

958,8 l 2, Patented May 24, 1910.

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Pamm may 24; 1910.

Application led October 5, 1908. Serial No. 456,149.

` for advancing the spinach therethrough, and

internal and external s ray pipes, one set of which is adapted to eliver fluid jets out wardly upon the vegetables to wash the same, while another set is designed to deliver inwardly upo'n the outside of the perforated carrier to kee the meshes or perforations of the latter free and unobstructed and to prevent the leaves of the vegetables being treated from bein driven into or adhering to theV inside ofthe carrier and being torn or injured thereby. l

Figure 1 is a plan view of a spinach washing machine embodying the salient features of my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same.

The carrier herein shown comprises ahorizontally-disposed revoluble drum, A, which may represent one form of carrier capable of carrying out my invention. This drum is formed of foraminous or perforated material of some appropriate type, and along its interior there will be secured appropriate flanges, B, of substantially spiral form, for directing the ve etables through the carrier from end to en thereof as said carrier rotates. Any suitable means maybe employed for mountmg and rotating the carrier; for instance in Fig. 3, I show the drum or carrier as being mounted upon bearing wheels, C, placed at opposite sides of the center and beneath the lower portion, these wheels being mounted on shafts which are provided with sprocket wheels, D, around which passes a chain, E, said wheels, C, frictionally engaging the periphery of the drum and thereby rotating said drum as power is communicated through the wheels thereto. The drumy is mounted in a suitable stationary frame, F, and in this frame beneath the drum is a trough or hopper, G, which receives 'the drainings and wash water delivered through the perforations of the drum.

Passing longitudinally through the drum is a spray pipe, H, or a' series of said pipes, which connects wlth a sultable source of water-supply; and when the drum is in motion and the spinach is a itated and tumbled about therein, the spinac is brought in contact 'with the hydraulic jets delivered from said pipe and the dirt or grit which the spinach contains is loosened and eliminated and finally discharged through the perforations of the drum into the trough or hopper underneath above mentioned. In order that the jets delivered from the hydraulic spraypipe may not cause the spinach to be driven against the inner side of the drum and more or less into the perforations, thereby causing the spinach to adhere to the inner wall of the drum and the young leaves to be torn by the frictional or other engagement with the inner wall of said drum, I prefer to arrange along the outside of the drum, a second spray pipe, I, or a series of such pipes, which is also connected with the source of water supply, and is adapted to deliver jets against the outside of the drum, whereby these eX- terior jets by passin inwardly through the perforations of the um serve to maintain said perforations' clear and unobstructed and to prevent the qspinach adhering to the inner side of said drum. The second-named sprays operate more or less in opposition to the first-named sprays and they assist in effecting a complete washing of the spinach, but their primary object is to prevent the clogging of the meshes or perforations in the drum and to prevent the adherence of the young leaves to the inner side of the drum and the consequent injury to said leaves. While the spinach is thus being passed through the drum, itis effectually washed by the hydraulic sprays and by the time it reaches the delivery end of sald drum, the spinach has been completely washed and all grit and foreign matter removed therefrom. By reason of the foregoing construction and particularly the arrangement of interior and exterior spray-pipes throwing their jets in opposite dlrections, the inner and outer sides of the spinach-leaves are subjected to the cleansing action of the water and the young leaves, which would be forcibly thrown against the inside of the drum and more or less into the perforations thereof, will be kept from clinglng to the drum and being torn or bruised thereby. f

Spinach and other leaved ve etables treated as above described will thusgbe in a better and more attractive condition for subsequent partial cooking and canning, while the loss 1n young tender leaves and sprouts is reduced to a minimum. f

Having thus described my invention rwhat I claim and desire to secure by Letters Pat- An improved vegetable washer having in combination a revoluble, perforated drum havin means for advancing the vegetable theret rough, a spray ipe within the drum adapted to deliver uld jets outwardly against the vegetable and toward the opposed inner Wall or surface of the drum, and a second spray pipe outside the drum adapted to deliver uid jets against the outer wall or surface of said drumsubstantially in a direction opposite to the jets of the firstnamed spray pipe, said second jets serving as cleaners of the lperforations of the drum and also to prevent the leaves of the'vegetable clinging to the opposite or inner surface of said drum.

In testimony whereof I aix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

EDWARD J. JUDGE.

` \Vitnesses:

A. MARIE FITZBERGER, B; ROSENHEIM.` 

